The 1st Leg of the Road Trip

After a fun last weekend down in Dallas, we embarked on the trip back to the state of Utah. Our first leg of the trip was to go from Dallas to Colorado Springs. This was approximately 12 hours. The trip was mostly uneventful, especially going through the barren part of Texas, but Erin and I still had a great time being together finally. Some of the highlights of the trip were finding a Taco Bell in the city of Amarillo and getting the long awaited Dairy Queen Blizzard for Erin after her fiasco with Dairy Queen in Provo.

The Taco Bell stop was exciting because I really wanted Taco Bell on my way down to Dallas, but couldn't find one in the city of Amarillo. With the crazy roads of Texas, once you see what you want it is too late. You have to make a U-turn to actually go back to where you want to go. Nevertheless, with Erin's keen eyesight, we were able to find it without having to do the U-turn experience.

The Dairy Queen visit for the blizzard took a little bit longer than expected, even though every town in Texas that has a stop light is guaranteed to have a Dairy Queen. We stopped at one but the chocolate ice cream was out, so we decided to go to the next little town. In the next town, we came to a realization that Dairy Queen doesn't serve chocolate ice cream anymore, just vanilla. If you want chocolate ice cream, then they give you vanilla ice cream with hot fudge sauce. We got the desired blizzard and enjoyed as we left Texas.

Nothing much happened in the state of New Mexico. The roads are being worked on, so maybe someday the whole ride will be two lane roads instead of a one lane road. I give it another 15 years. We made it safely to the Koffords, my uncle & aunt's house, in Colorado Springs just in time for dinner. After we talked with the Kofford's, we headed off to bed to prepare for our fun adventures with Erin's sister and my brother the next day in Denver. Stay tuned for tomorrow....